[FedCom] Boston FBI

[Bill]

as the lawyers say

"Your milage may vary"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
To: "Bill" <ecps92 at earthlink.net>; "Discussion of Federal Government 
Communications" <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: [FedCom] Boston FBI


> I would not even consider the comment  of anything I heard in the clear 
> was training.

 It must be nice to have a toy scanner and be psychic at the same time. 
While it's true that agencies sometimes run task force ops with locals 
unencrypted, how do YOU think some fellow fresh out of Quantico learns the 
ropes in a city like Pittsburgh, Atlanta or Boston where everything isn't 
always on a neat grid?  There are, at the very least, real ops, decoy ops 
and training ops.  It must be nice to always "know" which is which.  I've 
only been doing this for 40 years in both Chicago and Kansas City, and I 
often still can't tell what's what even in the clear.